Tuesday, May 12, 2015

A survey of over 780 IT and business decision makers said that 81% of employees/coworkers occasionally or routinely violated security and compliance policies; for the 300 polled in the healthcare industry it was 73%.

More than 97% of the healthcare organizations having policies in place. However, challenges remain when it comes to implementing them, ranging from low employee comprehension to policy violations.

To ensure the preventive controls, such as security and privacy policies and procedures, are being followed a program of detective controls is critical. Detective controls for data privacy breaches, excessive access, and identity theft can easily be accomplished with low-cost on-demand SaaS analytics services.